NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 NRA: Willis Robert (1800-1875) Mechanician and Architectural Historian DNB: Willis, Robert (1800–1875), engineer and architectural historian LBT ID: RoWilli1875 VIAF ID: 66503652 LOC ID: n85011186 | B/BAP: 1800-02-27 DIED: 1875-02-28 |
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Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was a natural scientist and
authority on medieval architecture appointed Jacksonian professor of natural and
experimental philosophy in 1837. | |